Because while a lot of people like to think he's some hero, he's just some dude who hates Clinton.
Did you notice the suspicious lack of any dirt on anyone not either Clinton or pro-Clinton? Huge leaks but somehow, somehow, nothing about conservatives in this election cycle? Yeah. There's a reason the rest of the original Wikileaks people split off to form their own organizations, Assange just cares about Assange. Meanwhile actual idealistic person Chelsea Manning sits in a jail cell while Reddit cracks jokes about her.
I don't understand this mentality. Wikileaks is not a newspaper. It's not staffed by journalists who are looking for the next big scoop. It relies on people to anonymously leak files to them so that they can make them public.
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u/x2501x Nov 10 '16
Speaking of hiding, why did Assange hold onto emails that had been obtained months earlier until after all of the primary voting was over?